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Yes and no. More no. If you go back and look, its a position but stated / closed with a question. It was meant to illicit a response as to what one thinks is the end goal of the current tariffs in a general sense. With that being one extreme. But was never about retail stock strategy, anyone’s pensions, etc Opportunity for insiders only if this is a short term play as they will know never the public. But there are multiple possibilities. So meant as a thought exercise really. No one has opinions on any short to long term objectives to this move around tariffs. As to the original hope on soliciting thoughts. The tariffs should have the goal to reduce the US dollar which would have specific effects. many of them positive of it plays out like it needs to mid to long term. We never saw deflation after the pandemic. just ever increasing costs. We may see initial increase in inflation, but the longer term with reduced dollar values and decreased demand should see things improve. But I don’t think the american public will be able to tolerate short term pain for long term gains. Especially with the left media will playing up the pain as distain for current admin.. The seemingly extreme #’s and visuals presented seem more constant with this being a short term tactic to drive negotiation to get more favorable tariffs applied to american goods. If so, than market manipulation could be of more concern. I don’t know. There is a plan. curious what others may think it is.

So I’ll take that as a no

oh not a timing question, just seeing what folks think the larger picture may be in light of prior tariff reversals that preceded this. May have been best as it’s own topic but the political aspects wasn’t sure. Very much a believer news is used to drive stupid money

So Tariffs and markets… An orchestrated monumental head fake to drive buying opportunity for the connected insiders. After they gorge on cheap stocks , admin pulls a “we hear you and will save you” full reversal and they pocket billions? Thinking of the earlier false starts on tariffs that were put off, possibly probing efforts to test market reactions as this was layed out. what say you?

Good Luck all!

Love the concept, wanted to get one as I like Ruger as a company. But they seem to purposely only offer them with Gray frames to get another $40 out of you to buy the black frame separately. Its clever, but that tactic put me off a bit. Heck, make the slide gray. If it can decide which single color it wants to be at the street price, I’m down to get it. Sounds silly In know, just not a mix master kinda guy.

Some opinions from when @10-Ring posed a similar question. I use it at work, it great for coding and editing work. It has a place and can be a huge timesaver. But the cost is total loss of privacy. Outside work, I use it for various searches. It is the ultimate aggregator and tends to return ‘answers’ versus ‘oh, are you interested in buying this?’ (lots of amazon results) as search engines have steadily moved to a major of monetized results. No more going thru pages of links, it crunches 100’s of basic google results weeding out the 95% of ad results to get to info / pertinent links in seconds. For this purpose I have a ‘public use’ laptop with Win 11, the ultimate expression of control and spying handed over to MS. I use it for things I am ok exposing to Alphabet / MS /Amazon / Apple and .gov. I avoid AI on my desktop and try to avoid them on my mobile. I remove installations that use it, such removing Copilot from Win 10 when the prying eyes at MS threw that in recently. I already stopped taking pictures of anything I don’t want Apple to see with my mobile. I’ve never used cloud, but it’s become obvious that Apple re-engineered it’s CSAM spy engine and pushed it out in pieces. They claim it’s on devic but they’ve done clever things with spreading various permissions so that they can use AI to scan and categorize pictures and sending “encrypted metadata” back to the mothership. With AI being infused into all newer mainstream OS’s, I am looking at moving to Linux and staying with older mobile devices for personal use. But as I struggle to stay on top of how clever Apple is getting at hiding things, I am looking at taking a similar approach with a second dumb mobile. So long way to say…. it’s a love and hate relationship. I love the time savings and leveraging it for things it dress well, but hate it’s clear abuses and what goes on behind the scenes.

pop pop, next time you are out running around you should go hold one in a shop to see how well you can wrap around and how it feels. Then consider how your grip will change overtime. The round drives mags to be longer front to back which means grips are extended. Its why so many have the brick feel to em. One of the driving factors for the round was to defeat body armor. FN wanted it to be adopted more widely at inception. Its designated AP rounds are restricted, but some of the non AP could do it. Not to many home invaders use body armor The late great Paul Harrell had a good vid or two on it if you are still looking to confirm / deny. He had a good analogy as I recall. Its like a pair of snap ring plies, only good at one thing, nothing else.

The patent expired about 5 years ago, so other manufacturers are pushing it now they have something “new” to offer. I’d say rent or borrow one first. I had my FN 5.7 for a few years. It wasn’t a great gun imo. The recoil was very light, absolutely. But the ergonomics and size were bad for a pistol. It was more about the novelty of the rifle velocity ballistics. Like a good portion of others that had them before the patent expired, I sold it to a member here a few years ago. Would I get another now that they are 1/3 to half the cost? I don’t see it. Ruger was first out of the gate and I scratched my head that they just knocked off the FN including its bad trigger. While the ammo is cheaper, it’s not cheap. I have hard time justifying it over say an AR pistol in the home defense scenario. much more adaptable. cheaper ammo, more capacity, and will make things just as dead If the ammo drops to sub AR prices and they offer some more interesting platforms that are clear improvements / ergos over things so close to the FN, it would offer more draw imo.

Congrats! Great she’ll have a big bro to keep an eye on her for ya too

@TGO David, Saturday AM I added notifications for new posts in the firearm classifieds. Taking a look at what got listed since yesterday I see it’s not sending all. The ones from 15 to 17 hours ago especially. I recall there was a downtime Saturday afternoon, not sure if there was another Sunday AM during that window. Do you believe email notifications have been addressed? Are new post notices just spotty by nature?

One time price drop before withdrawing

I have mixed feelings with Sig. One of my favorite 1911’s is a Sig. But I’ve found them difficult on warranty matters at times. I just sent back a brand new unfired cerakoted firearm that was not prepped correctly so the coating chips off easily. I felt like I got the third degree with the rep. Seemed like they thought I was trying to pull something, so I don’t expect them to do the right thing, but hoping. It’s just different working with them now that they have military contracts. All that said, I have 3 320 modules that have been in various configurations / slides / grip modules. Never a problem. I didn’t know about this article OP called out. But yesterday I received an email from Gray’s that seemed out of the blue until this. It referred to “renewed discussions” about the 320. So now I get the context. This is their.02 if anyone cares: At Grayguns, we don’t take anything for granted. We test, we push, and we go beyond normal use conditions to find out what a firearm is truly capable of. Over the years, in controlled environments, we have deliberately attempted to compromise the mechanical safeties of the P320, looking for ways an unintended discharge could occur. Despite those efforts, we have never been able to induce a discharge without the trigger being actuated. That does not mean people are wrong to be asking questions. The fact that we have not been able to make it happen does not change the reality that people believe it’s happening. We understand that too, and because of that, we are going to continue to explore every scenario, no matter how implausible it may seem. If there is a way for a failure to occur, we want to find it, understand it, and make sure the people who depend on this firearm have the information they need.

Real time gives me some hope! But It feels more like you know when someone plans to sell too cheap and when they’ll post it…before it happens, leaving no chance. More this: